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Multiplication facts for kids
Multiplication is an arithmetic operation for finding the product of two numbers. Multiplication is the third operation in maths after addition which is the first, subtraction which is the second and then there is multiplication.
With natural numbers, it tells you the number of tiles in a rectangle where one of the two numbers equals the number of tiles on one side and the other number equals the number of tiles on the other side.
With real numbers, it tells you the area of a rectangle where the first number equals the size of one side and the second number equals the size of the other side.
For example, three multiplied by five is the total of five threes added together, or the total of three fives. This can be written down as 3 × 5 = 15, or spoken as "three times five equals fifteen." Mathematicians call the two numbers you wish to multiply "coefficients" together, or "multiplicand" and "multiplicator" separately. Multiplicand × multiplicator = product.
Multiplication between numbers is said to be commutative- when the order of the numbers does not influence the value of the product. This is true for the Integers (whole numbers), e.g. 4 × 6 is the same as 6 × 4, and also for the Rational numbers (fractions), and for all the other Real numbers (representable as a field in the continuous line), and also for Complex numbers (numbers representable as a field in the plane). It is not true for quaternions (numbers representable as a ring in the four-dimensional space), vectors or matrices.
The definition of multiplication as repeated addition provides a way to arrive at a set-theoretic interpretation of multiplication of cardinal numbers. A more accurate representation is to think of it as scaling quantities. This animation illustrates 3 being multiplied by 2, giving 6 as a result. Notice that the blue dot in the blue segment of length 3 is placed at position 1, and the blue segment is scaled so that this dot is placed at the end of the red segment, of length 2. For multiplication by any X, the blue dot will always start at 1 and end at X. This works even for X smaller than 1, or negative.
The opposite of multiplication is division.
Multiplication table
Teachers usually require their pupils to memorize the table of the first 9 numbers when teaching multiplication.
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The welcoming remarks of an unidentified member of the senior GOP House leadership to the assembled Republican conference gathering for a "retreat" in Williamsburg have leaked:
Welcome to Williamsburg, Members of the House Republican Conference. We hope you enjoy your retreat.Perhaps we should begin with that age old tradition: Look to your left. Now look to your right. Either you or one of those two people won't be here in two years. Perhaps two of the three will be gone. If you are sitting in the wrong row, all three of you could be looking for work with the Potato Chip and Snack Food Association.
Just kidding. Sort of. Actually, we don't have a clue. Nobody does. The base may be stunned into despair or it may be ready to go Vesuvius, we can't be sure. Feels like Vesuvius most days.
It really could be that dire, and we tell you this simply because if you have only two years as a congressman, you might as well enjoy them. Play some golf while you are here. Catch the glass blowing exhibit. Your kids will love the guys in the funny hats with the muskets.
Had we been on top of things –big "if," that one—we'd have gotten you all copies of Jon Meacham's new bestseller Jefferson: The Art of Power. So much of it is set in Williamsburg, and so much of it describes genuine political leadership that it would really have been a good thing to suggest you read it before arriving here. But which Congressmen read anything these days. We are passing out a transcript of a long interview Meacham gave. Perhaps your staff could summarize it for you, and you can pretend you have read the whole book when you get back home
As I was saying, welcome. We have a pretty full agenda, and you have no idea how difficult it is to fill up this much time and avoid talking about the real issues. Our reputation for folding like old beach chairs and the disarray in the leadership are painful to discuss much less fix, however, so we won't be doing much of that. We do have some fine talks coming up, but we can usually count on our speakers to do their best to ingratiate themselves to you and avoid uncomfortable subjects like the promises you made in getting here. We do note Dr. Larry Arnn from Hillsdale College is on the agenda, and we aren't quite sure how that slipped by the program committee of the Speaker's Office, but that could be interesting and memorable.
Some of you would like to have a long conversation about the next month which, after all, will do much to define the 113th Congress and almost certainly determine if you are drawing a primary challenger funded by The Campaign for Primary Accountability. (Our apologies to Spencer Bacchus. Didn't mean to make him twitch that way. )
If you haven't yet had a chance, do read the Jim VandeHei's and Mike Allen's piece from Politico earlier in the week if you'd really like to know what the Speaker's team thinks about most of you. We'd like to apologize for some of the blunter, loose talk in the piece, the stuff about how you need to be "pacified," how you need to stage a show for your constituents, and how there will be a lame deal at the end of the shouting that basically agrees to enormous amounts of new unfunded spending and zero meaningful entitlement reform.
That was a little blunt, and the Speaker has talked to his team about rounding the edges of their contempt for you and the conservative base. On the plus side, it was candid, right? That is what will happen, and then you'll roll over on what the appropriators want, and then come May you have to go home and start raising money to fend off the primary challenges because nothing changed except the size of our astronomical debt.
Just bottom-lining it for you. We may get something rolling on immigration to try and draw off some of the heat from our impotence on spending. Paul Ryan, who we all know rose in the nation's esteem because he made tough choices and defended them in public, is willing to do so again on immigration, working with Senator Rubio, so you may or may not be able to talk about something other than our serial collapses when you get home for the summer, but let's face it, the president has stolen another march on us there as well. Still, thank you Paul for trying. Having a member who is known to be thinking about big issues is a great boon to all of us.
Now, we know there is grumbling. We fully expect some Oliver Twist among you to approach the Speaker and say "Please sir may I have some more," or the 2013 equivalent of an abject plea for basic necessities. But we aren't in the business of fulfilling your needs this cycle.
Some of you would like to know where we have been since November 6 or even since January 2? Why don't we have a draft bill to actually discuss that ups the debt ceiling in exchange for a raise in the age of Medicare eligibility, block granting Medicaid, even a raise in the age of Social Security eligibility another year or so, and of course which tinkers with the CPI? Why don't we have actual draft legislation on immigration to discuss? Why can't we pass out the secret deal Hal Rogers has cooked up on appropriations? We know. We hear some of you when you make the mistake of appearing on talk radio. (We'd like to talk to you about that, offline by the way. Those people are not your friends. You really shouldn't go on those shows. Try developing a relationship with someone from Politico or MSNBC.)
Look, actual draft legislation, that's not how this works. We have hunkered down. Every time we appear anywhere we get blistered by the MSM and by our so-called friends in talk radio. If we stay on the golf course and away from governing or even trying to govern, no one gets hurt. Well, we don't get hurt.
Now, some of you might get hurt, but you are all from new districts. If you can get past the primary, you are for the most part golden. Unless we get another 2006 or 2008, which isn't likely because, after all, November of 2014 will be the president's "6 year itch" election, and we should do ok just by breathing. Unless we really and truly do have a debt crisis where the bond vigilantes start forcing up the cost of our debt and the red ink explodes.
Heh. As though any amount of red ink more than a trillion matters. Can't even believe I said that. Sheesh. Sorry. We are supposed to pretend like a trillion here and a trillion there adds up to real money.
Bottom line: The senior members of the caucus have got theirs. They can retire out on comfortable pensions to good company town jobs regardless of what happens. Sure, we'd like to keep the majority. The offices are bigger and the staffs are larger. But we aren't going to do anything to sacrifice our positions in D.C., no matter who holds the gavel in a few years.
Most of you have the same sweet deal ahead of you. Those of you who last ten years at least. Try thinking of it that way: Your goal is to make it ten years. No one gets there by bucking leadership. That's the bottom line.
Some of you have some qualms about this sort of realism, and I don't mean the show-boaters who actually voted against Paul Ryan's budget because it didn't balance and who are just adopting a different career path. No, I mean the genuinely conscientious among you who believe the country is in an honest-to-God crisis.
Let me get a little existential on you for a moment. A country isn't in a crisis until a country believes it is in a crisis. Some of you want us to try and persuade the country it is in a crisis, but we just don't think that can be done. That is why we don't argue our case in public, why we think Meet the Press is the sum total of our out-reach duties. We aren't cynical, just experienced. We can't "message." We don't know how to use Twitter or social media. We are old white guys. If you cut us, we do bleed, but nobody cares and nobody thinks we care, so we are resigned to this.
Some of you, and God love ya, you think you have a duty to do something. Well, we all used to. It is the common denominator, at least for most of us: Why we got into this business.
But now is not the time to encourage you in the rekindling of that passion. Go pick an issue and work it. Do a little good, don't rage against the dying of the light. Raise some money. We'll arrange some votes you can take to hold off the primary challengers. We care, we really do.
But please, for all of our sakes, stop pretending we can beat the president and his pals in the press. Maybe if we get the Senate in 2014 we can do something. In the meantime, we will stop any new nightmares from arriving at his desk, and we will spend $4 trillion we don't have and pray the world believes we will fix it in 2017.
Enjoy the weekend.

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The 2013 annual Conference of the European Program for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (the HELP Program) took place on 18-19 June 2013 in Strasbourg and was dedicated to "Cross-cutting issues on human rights training for legal professionals". The event was organized under the Armenian chairmanship of the Committee of ministers of the Council of Europe.
The annual plenary session was inaugurated by the welcoming addresses delivered by Mr. Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DGI), and Mr. Armen Papikyan, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe.
During the introductory speeches, Mr. Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, discussed the role of legal professionals in defending human rights and preserving the human rights protection system, and Mr. Lech Garlicki, former Judge and Section-President of the European Court of Human Rights, new areas of human rights protection, such as positive obligations, supranational acts and extraterritoriality.
Participants to the Conference were composed of the representatives of national training institutions, bar associations, international and non-governmental organizations, training providers, focal and info points, international experts and keynote speakers, and the CoE's representatives.
The participants were affiliated to 4 working groups, each of them concerned with different areas of human rights training for legal professionals (networking on ECHR training for legal professionals; interplay among different human rights training curricula in global and regional human rights law; model curricula and national specificities; crossing over language barriers in multinational training initiatives for legal professionals, etc…).
At the end of the Conference, Mr. Grzegorz Borkovski, Mrs. Sandra Budimir, Mr. Simon O'Toole, Mrs. Beatrice Ramascanu, Mrs. Jolanta Samuolyte and Mr. Pier Giovanni Traversa were elected as members of the Consultative Board of the HELP Network.
The closing speech was given by Mr. Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director of Human Rights (DGI).
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Artificial Intelligence could threaten your human rights!
Artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionise the way we live. In fields such as medicine, communications and transport new opportunities abound. But the consequences of AI's advance for democracy, human rights and the rule of law are still unclear. As the late Stephen Hawking warned, the risks of unregulated AI are unprecedented.
Algorithms are already said to be able to identify the best candidates for a job, assist doctors to establish medical diagnoses or help lawyers before the courts. All this is not entirely new. Already in the 1980s, expert systems assisted humans with a high level of expertise. What is new today is that computers are increasingly able to perform extremely complex tasks independently. We therefore clearly need regulation to leave essential decision-making to humans and not to mathematical models, whose adequacy and biases are not controlled.


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New, environmentally friendly alternatives to the solvent!
SAN FRANCISCO -- In what is becoming a growing trend, hundreds of dry-cleaners throughout the country have switched to new, environmentally friendly alternatives to the solvent now used to dry-clean clothes.
So Consumer Reports put three of these new methods of dry-cleaning to the test.
From mere appearances, there is no visible difference between cleaners using perchloroethylene or perc, which is bad for the environment and can leave a telltale odor on clothes, and those using a new method of dry-cleaning called GreenEarth. But just ask the people who worked there.
"It's good for the clothes, it's good for our employees, and it's good for the earth," said Marie Danna, the cleaner's owner.
GreenEarth is a method that uses a silicone-based solvent. Consumer Reports just tested this cleaning method and two other alternatives to perc.
"Another (new) method uses liquid carbon dioxide in high-pressure equipment," said Pat Slaven of Consumer Reports. "And then there's professional wet-cleaning which uses water and special detergents in computer controlled machines."
Consumer Reports chose fabrics that would challenge the cleaners: a lamb's wool jacket, a silk blouse, and a rayon/linen blend skirt with pleats. Three sets were sent to each type of cleaner and one set went to a regular dry-cleaner.
Several articles of clothes didn't do well with the wet-cleaning method. One skirt shrank ten percent, that's almost two sizes. And the jackets, several of them fuzzed up.
Surprisingly, the results from the regular dry-cleaner were almost as disappointing.
The jacket was fuzzy, looking like a cat scratched it, and had little pills all over it. The blouse faded and had white lines on it.
Clothes treated by the silicone-based GreenEarth method did much better, with only slight shrinkage on a skirt, and less pilling on the jacket.
The best method, Consumer Reports found, turned out to be the one that uses carbon dioxide. The clothes didn't shrink or stretch, and the colors remained true.
So if you're looking for an environmentally friendly way to clean your clothes, both carbon dioxide and silicone cleaning are good choices.


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Languages French 3 June 1944 – 26 January 1946 Charles de Gaulle 24 June 1946 - 28 November 1946 Georges Bidault Currency French franc | Government Provisional government 26 January 1946 - 24 June 1946 Félix Gouin Founded 1944 Date dissolved 1946 | |
Capital Algiers (de facto, 3 June - 31 August 1944)
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Provisional government of the french republic
The Provisional Government of the French Republic (gouvernement provisoire de la République française or GPRF) was an interim government of Free France between 1944 and 1946 following the liberation of continental France after the operations Overlord and Dragoon, and lasted until the establishment of the French Fourth Republic. Its establishment marked the official restoration and re-establishment of a provisional French Republic assuring continuity with the defunct French Third Republic.
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It succeeded the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN), which had been the provisional government of France in the overseas territories and metropolitan parts of the country (Algeria and Corsica) that had been liberated by the Free French. As the wartime government of France in 1944-1945, its main purposes were to handle the aftermath of the occupation of France and continue to wage war against Germany as a major Ally.
Its principal mission beside the war was to prepare the ground for a new constitutional order that resulted in the Fourth Republic. It also made several important reforms and political decisions, such as granting women the right to vote, founding the École nationale d'administration, and laying the grounds of social security in France.
It was officially created by the CFLN on 3 June 1944, the day before Charles de Gaulle arrived in London from Algiers on Winston Churchill's invitation, and three days before D-Day. The CFLN itself had been created exactly one year earlier through the uniting of de Gaulle's (Comité national français, or CNF) and Henri Giraud's organisations. Among its most immediate concerns were to ensure that France did not come under allied military administration, preserving the sovereignty of France and freeing allied troops for fighting on the front.
After the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944, it moved back to the capital, establishing a new "national unanimity" government on 9 September 1944, including Gaullists, nationalists, socialists, communists and anarchists, and uniting the politically divided French Resistance. Among its foreign policy goals was to secure a French occupation zone in Germany and a permanent UNSC seat. This was assured through a large military contribution on the western front.
The GPRF set about raising new troops to participate in the advance to the Rhine and the invasion of Germany, using the French Forces of the Interior as military cadres and manpower pools of experienced fighters to allow a very large and rapid expansion of the French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération). It was well equipped and well supplied despite the economic disruption brought by the occupation thanks to Lend-Lease, and grew from 500,000 men in the summer of 1944 to over 1,300,000 by V-E day, making it the fourth largest Allied army in Europe.
The French 2nd Armoured Division, tip of the spear of the Free French forces that had participated in the Normandy Campaign and liberated Paris, went on to liberate Strasbourg on 23 November 1944, thus fulfilling the Oath of Kufra made by its commanding officer General Leclerc almost four years earlier. The unit under his command, barely above company size when it had captured the Italian fort, had grown into a full-strength armoured division.
The spearhead of the Free French First Army that had landed in Provence was the I Corps. Its leading unit, the French 1st Armoured Division, was the first Western Allied unit to reach the Rhône (25 August 1944), the Rhine (19 November 1944) and the Danube (21 April 1945). On 22 April 1945, it captured the Sigmaringen enclave in Baden-Württemberg, where the last Vichy regime exiles, including Marshal Philippe Pétain, were hosted by the Germans in one of the ancestral castles of the Hohenzollern dynasty.
They participated in stopping operation Nordwind, the very last German major offensive on the western front in January 1945, and in collapsing the Colmar Pocket in January-February 1945, capturing and destroying most of the German XIXth Army.
The GPRF was dominated by the tripartisme alliance between the French Communist Party (PCF), claiming itself to be the parti des 75,000 fusillés ("party of the 75,000 shot") because of its leading role in the Resistance (though actual dead were much fewer), the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party) and the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), led by Georges Bidault. This alliance between the three political parties lasted until the May 1947 crisis during which Maurice Thorez, vice-premier, and four other Communist ministers were expelled from the government, both in France and in Italy. Along with the acceptance of the Marshall Plan, refused by countries who had fallen under the influence of the USSR, this marked the official beginning of the Cold War in these countries.
It started decolonisation by recognising the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, but the refusal to include Cochinchina in the new state led to the First Indochina War.
Although the GPRF was active only from 1944 to 1946, it had a lasting influence, in particular regarding the enacting of labour laws which were put forward by the National Council of the Resistance, the umbrella organisation which united all resistance movements, in particular the communist Front National. The Front National was the political front of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) resistance movement. In addition to de Gaulle's edicts granting, for the first time in France, right of vote to women in 1944, the GPRF passed various labour laws, including the 11 October 1946 act establishing occupational medicine. It also appointed commissioners to fulfill its aims.
Vichy loyalists were put on trial by the GPRF in legal purges (épuration légale), and a number were executed for treason, among them Pierre Laval, Vichy's prime minister in 1942-44. The Marshal Philippe Pétain, "Chief of the French State" and Verdun hero, was also condemned to death but his sentence was commuted to life. Thousands of collaborators were summarily executed by local Resistance forces in so-called "savage purges" (épuration sauvage).
The provisional government considered that the Vichy government had been unconstitutional and that all its actions had thus been illegal. All statutes, laws, regulations and decisions by the Vichy government were thus made null and void. However, since mass cancellation of all decisions taken by Vichy, including many that could have been taken as well by republican governments, was impractical, it was decided that any repeal was to be expressly acknowledged by the government. A number of laws and acts were however explicitly repealed, including all constitutional acts, all laws discriminating against Jews, all acts against "secret societies" (e.g. Freemasons), and all acts creating special tribunals.
Collaborationist paramilitary and political organizations, such as the Milice and the Legionary Order Service, were also disbanded.
The provisional government also took steps to replace local governments, including governments that had been suppressed by the Vichy regime, through new elections or by extending the terms of those who had been elected no later than 1939.
The provisional government resumed the project started in 1936 by Jean Zay to create a national administration school (École nationale d'administration), which was founded on 9 October 1945, to ensure high-ranking civil servants of consistent high quality, as well as allow gifted people to reach these functions regardless of social origin.
The right to vote had been granted to women by the CFLN on 21 April 1944, and was confirmed by the GPRF with the 5 October 1944 decree. They went to the polls for the first time in the local elections of 29 April 1945.
It passed decisions about Social Security (Sécurité sociale, decree of 19 October 1945), and child benefits (law of 22 August 1946), laying the foundations of the welfare state in France.
In the dirigist spirit, it created large state-owned companies, for instance by nationalising Renault and founding electricity company EDF and airline Air France.
The new constitution
Another main objective of the GPRF under de Gaulle leadership was to give a voice to the people by organizing elections which took place on 21 October 1945. The polls saw the victory of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP), collecting three-quarters of the votes, and the referendum had an outcome of 96% of voters in favour of abolishing the Third Republic. Becoming a constituent assembly, the newly elected parliament was charged with drafting a constitution for a new fourth republic.
de Gaulle, favouring a stronger executive, resigned in disagreement with Communist ministers on 20 January 1946. A first draft constitution, supported by the left but denounced by de Gaulle and by centre and right-wing parties, was rejected by a referendum on 5 May 1946 resulting in the dissolution of parliament and the resignation of de Gaulle's successor Félix Gouin of the SFIO.
A new election for a constituent assembly was held on 2 June 1946, marked by a strengthening of the MRP and the decline of the left. The constitutional project then shifted from pursuing unicameralism to bicameralism. The constitution of the Fourth Republic, established under the chairmanship of Georges Bidault (MRP), was finally adopted by the 13 October 1946 referendum.
Following the elections for a new Chamber of parliament held on 10 November 1946, former Popular Front leader Leon Blum became the Chairman of the last interim government on 16 December. One month later, Vincent Auriol succeeded Blum as President of the Republic, marking the entry into force of the institutions of the Fourth Republic.


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Pronunciation: slæp-stik • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. Two flat paddles used by Vaudeville comedians, one hinged to the other so that when something (or someone) is hit with it, one slaps against the other delivering a much louder bang than expected. 2. [Noun, mass] The kind of crude humor based on knockabout melodrama and farce, with or without slapsticks.
Notes: Today's good and funny word came to us by way of synecdoche (no, not Schenectady). Synecdoche [si-nek-dê-kee] is a type of metaphor in which a part of something represents the whole. If your pal asks if you have wheels, meaning a car, he is guilty of synecdoche—a poet who doesn't know it! A slapstick was once a prop so tightly identified with broad humor that it became our word for that type of humor itself.
In Play: We usually associate slapstick with the movies of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops, the Marx Brothers and, last but not least, the Three Stooges. However, it is still alive and well in such recent movies as Dumb and Dumber. "Honestly, what he did at the office party was pure slapstick; he even put a lampshade on his head."
Word History: Today's word is a compound made up of two purely English words—how is that for a rarity? Stick was originally an instrumental noun from the verb stick "to poke", i.e. an instrument for poking. That is probably the same root in thistle, too, without the initial [s]. (The Fickle S is just about as common in Indo-European languages as the Fickle N.) It is related to Greek stigma, which we borrowed pretty much as is, a noun based on the verb stizein "to prick, tattoo". In Latin we find it in the stem -stigare "to spur, prod on", the stem of instigare, the origin of our instigate. (Today we owe a tip of the hat to Luis Alejandro Apiolaza, Uncronopio of the Agora, for wondering aloud what this Good Word is all about.)
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Google is shuttering its Reader service on July 1, and according to the company, it's due to a decline in usage and Google's plan to focus on services that do better. Reader, however, has a very dedicated userbase that even launched a petition in an effort to stop the service's closure – and if BuzzFeed's traffic data mirrors everyone else's, they drive a lot more traffic to websites than Google+ users.
A BuzzFeed post by staff writer John Hermann reveals that compared to Reader, Google+ drives very little traffic to its partner sites with over 300 million users. A pie chart made by the social news website's data team (pictured above) illustrates it quite well: traffic from Google's social network is but a sliver in a pie chart with traffic from the dying RSS reader. And that pie chart, which represents data from August of last year until today, doesn't even include traffic from masked referrals and from news apps that pull feeds from Reader, so Google+'s share might even be smaller.
This shouldn't come too much of a surprise to people who've been following the growth of G+, though, as a study published in 2012 revealed that even Pinterest drives more traffic to websites than Google+. Note that the company claims its fledgling social network has over 100 million active users now, which could very well be inflated as we all know you automatically get a Google+ account when you sign up for another one of its services like GMail.
If Reader's usage is dwindling yet it delivers more traffic to a network as big as Buzzfeed's, what does that say? Are Google+ users just not inclined to share content with one another? Do BuzzFeed's partners just happen to be voracious Reader users, as well? Or has Reader actually been thriving, and yet the company decided to shut it down anyway to concentrate on Google+, as a former Google product manager speculates? Sound off in the comments, and let us know what you think!


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Lime's Transit Partnerships Program
We at Lime are working hard on making multimodal transportation that is shared, affordable and carbon-free a reality. Our goal can only be achieved jointly with strong local transit partners. Launching the Lime Transit Partnership Program, any municipal transit operator can reach out to Lime and request our GBFS feed (Deep Linking) for their respective local transit applications.
What is GBFS and Deep Linking?
The General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) provides a standardized data feed for shared mobility systems. It includes, among other things, the location and status of a scooter or bike. Transit operators can use Lime's GBFS feed to show the location and availability of Lime's vehicles within their application. After selection of a vehicle the user will be redirected to the Lime app (Deep Linking). The booking and payment process remains inside Lime's rider app.


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How to alkalize your body
In order to counteract acidification, it is necessary to actively de-acidify the body. Deacidification can be done in several ways:
Limit acidifying factors:
- It is advisable to avoid foods and activities that strongly acidify the body, such as stress, smoking, drugs, excessive muscle strain and harmful radiation as much as possible.
- Limit consumption of acidic foods and drinks. Foods containing animal proteins, sugars, carbonated drinks, alcohol, coffee, etc. Eat more deacidifying foods such as vegetables, potatoes, nuts, etc. (click here for detailed information on the acid -base diet).
Unfortunately it is almost impossible to minimize or completely avoid all the above factors. Mobile phones, wireless Internet, (recreational) sports, a party with wine, beer , soft drinks and snacks are often too tempting.
Active De-acidification
Restoring the balance between acidity an alkaline, by neutralizing accumulated acid waste in the body, is active called de-acidification. Active de-acidification can be done in the following ways:
Increase your alkaline buffer!
Sodium bicarbonate is our alkaline buffer which neutralizes excessive acid waste in the blood. By increasing this buffer daily, less acid waste is left behind. The active alkalizing effect can be obtained with Alka Drops®, Alka Tabs® and Alka® Tabs Calcium.
Drink herbal extracts!
For centuries people have been drinking herbal extracts in order to clean their body. Every herb contains several elements which can break down acid salts formed in the body. In order to stimulate the deacidification process, drinking herbal extracts is vital. Alka® Tea is specially formulated from 52 types of herbs that best help the body to deacidify on a daily basis.
Take alkalizing and mineralizing baths!
Acidic waste is mostly expelled through our largest organ, the skin! Acids are usually guided outside via the pores. This is why many people often secrete unpleasant body odor when the skin becomes too strong acidic. The secretion of acidic waste through the skin can lead to various (chronic) skin conditions like eczema, red skin, yeast infections and inflammation. Alkalizing baths stimulate the removal of acid waste from the inside out. In addition, the acidic surface layer is cleaned. Pores are opened to newly formed sebum which protects the skin. Minerals and trace elements that are absorbed through the skin cells nourish the skin. Alka® Bath is a unique alkalizing formula to de-acidify by taking alkalizing and mineralizing baths and showers.
Nourish the body with alkaline nutrients!
Feeding your body with daily nutrients protects you from acidification. These nutrients are essential to compensate for daily inpouring of acidifying foods. Alkalizing nutrients include vegetables, various fruits, grasses (barley grass, wheat grass), algae (chlorella, spirulina). Furthermore, additional fibers, enzymes and probiotics are essential to keep the acid-alkaline balance in check. Good health starts with a good metabolism through the intestines. Alka® Greens is a "superfood" that consists of a wide selection of alkalizing and orthomolecular nutrients that nourish the body, de-acidify and protect against acidification.
Deacidification and "enjoy"
Through daily de-acidification you can enjoy a "piece of meat and a glass of wine or beer", or other acidifying foods without guilt. If you suffer from acidification problems, it is advisable, besides active de-acidification, to reduce the amount of acidifying foods and activities.
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Wireshark, a tool recognized universally as being one of the best network analyzers available, has long been used by legitimate network professionals as well as a shadier crowd (and everywhere in between). While useful for analyzing both wired and Wi-Fi traffic, monitoring 802.15.4 protocols (such as Zigbee) have not been a common use in the past. [Akiba] of FreakLabs has brought us a solution which works around the normal limitations of Wireshark's libpcap base, which does not accept simple serial input from most homebrew setups that use FTDI or Arduinos to connect to Zigbee devices. Using named pipes and a few custom scripts, [Akiba] has been able to coax Wireshark into accepting input from one of FreakLabs Freakduino boards.
While there are certainly professional wireless analyzing tools out there that connect directly into Wireshark, we at Hackaday love showing off anyone who takes the difficult, cheap, out of the way method of doing things over the neat, expensive, commercial method any day.


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Ahab had seventy descendants in Samaria. Jehu prepared letters and sent them to the city rulers, to the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab's descendants in Samaria.
"Since your master's sons are with you," he wrote, "and you have the chariots, the horses, a fortified city, and the weapons, when this letter reaches you
decide which is the best and the fittest of your master's offspring, place him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
They were overcome with fright and said, "If two kings could not withstand him, how can we?"
So the vizier and the ruler of the city, along with the elders and the guardians, sent this message to Jehu: "We are your servants, and we will do everything you tell us. We will proclaim no one king; do whatever you think best."
So Jehu wrote them a second letter: "If you are on my side and will obey me, count the heads of your master's sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow." (The seventy princes were in the care of prominent men of the city, who were rearing them.)
When the letter arrived, they took the princes and slew all seventy of them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.
"They have brought the heads of the princes," a messenger came in and told him. "Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the city until morning," he ordered.
Going out in the morning, he stopped and said to all the people: "You are not responsible, and although I conspired against my lord and slew him, yet who killed all these?
Know that not a single word which the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab shall go unfulfilled. The LORD has accomplished all that he foretold through his servant Elijah."
Thereupon Jehu slew all who were left of the family of Ahab in Jezreel, as well as all his powerful supporters, intimates, and priests, leaving him no survivor.
Then he set out for Samaria, and at Beth-eked-haroim on the way,
he came across kinsmen of Ahaziah, king of Judah. "Who are you?" he asked. "We are kinsmen of Ahaziah," they replied. "We are going down to visit the princes and the family of the queen mother."
"Take them alive," Jehu ordered. They were taken alive, forty-two in number, then slain at the pit of Beth-eked. Not one of them was spared.
When he had left there, Jehu met Jehonadab, son of Rechab, on the road. He greeted him and asked, "Are you sincerely disposed toward me, as I am toward you?" "Yes," replied Jehonadab. "If you are," continued Jehu, "give me your hand." Jehonadab gave him his hand, and Jehu drew him up into his chariot.
"Come with me," he said, "and see my zeal for the LORD." And he took him along in his own chariot.
When he arrived in Samaria, Jehu slew all who remained there of Ahab's line, doing away with them completely and thus fulfilling the prophecy which the LORD had spoken to Elijah.
Jehu gathered all the people together and said to them: "Ahab served Baal to some extent, but Jehu will serve him yet more.
Now summon for me all Baal's prophets, all his worshipers, and all his priests. See that no one is absent, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is absent shall not live." This Jehu did as a ruse, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.
Jehu said further, "Proclaim a solemn assembly in honor of Baal." They did so,
and Jehu sent word of it throughout the land of Israel. All the worshipers of Baal without exception came into the temple of Baal, which was filled to capacity.
Then Jehu said to the custodian of the wardrobe, "Bring out the garments for all the worshipers of Baal." When he had brought out the garments for them,
Jehu, with Jehonadab, son of Rechab, entered the temple of Baal and said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and be sure that there is no worshiper of the LORD here with you, but only worshipers of Baal."
Then they proceeded to offer sacrifices and holocausts. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside with this warning, "If one of you lets anyone escape of those whom I shall deliver into your hands, he shall pay life for life."
As soon as he finished offering the holocaust, Jehu said to the guards and officers, "Go in and slay them. Let no one escape." So the guards and officers put them to the sword and cast them out. Afterward they went into the inner shrine of the temple of Baal,
took out the stele of Baal, and burned the shrine.
Then they smashed the stele of Baal, tore down the building, and turned it into a latrine, as it remains today.
Thus Jehu rooted out the worship of Baal from Israel.
However, he did not desist from the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit, as regards the golden calves at Bethel and at Dan.
The LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well what I deem right, and have treated the house of Ahab as I desire, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel."
But Jehu was not careful to observe wholeheartedly the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, since he did not desist from the sins which Jeroboam caused Israel to commit.
At that time the LORD began to dismember Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
east of the Jordan (all the land of Gilead, of the Gadites, Reubenites and Manassehites), from Aroer on the river Arnon up through Gilead and Bashan.
The rest of the acts of Jehu, his valor and all his accomplishments, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz succeeded him as king.
The length of Jehu's reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.


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The most popular and photogenic view of Durham Cathedral and Castle is adjacent to one of the wiers spanning the River Wear.
The River Wear provides some 1800m of river that can be rowed on, stretching from Old Durham Beck in the east to the wier next to Durham School Boat Club's boat house in the west . This includes the 700m straight used for most of the Durham Regatta - the premier rowing event in the North East of England, held each year on the second weekend in June.


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Is he single? Maybe he's on Blake Lively's list too.
Henry Cavill was photographed in Madrid yesterday shooting The Cold Light of Day (terrible title). Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver (not pictured) also costar. It's a major leading role for Cavill, and in addition to his upcoming performance opposite Mickey Rourke in Immortals, perhaps it's time for Henry, 27, to finally break out. Many of you – because I get your emails – have been waiting for this to happen for a long, long time. On paper, it's certainly been a very smart, very strategic series of moves.
His work in The Tudors shows some solid acting ability and versatility with material. And he can be a dick too, I really did hate him as Melot in the insufferably boring Tristan + Isolde. Now he's moving into the action genre. So that leaves a good romance. Look at him. He's beautiful. I'd pay to see him in a romance, wouldn't you?
Also, he has really great hair. When it's short (Dunhill ad), when it's long-ish (interview with a lady who keeps interrupting him), really really hot hair. Might have to make room for Henry on my Five List. And here's a direct message to my friend Lo.
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Mother Nature creates natural lakes. Sometimes man enhances them by a strategic placement of a dam. My favorite lakes are natural ones because Mother Nature's design is not hydropower production nor irrigation but aquatic life.
Two of my favorite lakes are Idaho's Henry's Lake and Yellowstone Park's Heart
Lake. These are notable fisheries because their structural elements include vast littoral zones and optimal water quality.
Henry's Lake is all littoral zones with an average depth of about ten feet. Here, great expanses of aquatic plants flourish which produces an enormous food chain. Its trout prosper and their average size is massive. The water's alkalinity is optimal; in addition, its altitude furnishes cool summer waters which allow for long growing seasons.
Heart Lake is a remote lake with similar elements favoring fish production. Here large cutthroat and lake trout are present in prolific numbers. Its forest and water quality is almost untouched by man; a visit to Heart Lake is a superb wilderness experience.
The advantages of a natural lake are that many of them contain large areas of shallows and that their water source comes from underground springs. Here the earth has filtered its water supply and buffered its temperature and chemical contents. Seasonally, snow melt and runoff influences a lake by carrying organic and inorganic matter that can enrich these waters. The best natural lakes have an abundance of littoral zones coupled with good chemistry and water quality. From the weeds in the littoral zone both oxygen and insect habitat are produced.
Usually, natural lakes include deep areas where during severe winter and summer conditions fish can migrate to for survival.
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Nigeria rebels vow more attacks after 'warning strike' on oil pipeline
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Nigeria's fragile truce with rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region has come dangerously close to a violent end, as rebels took credit this weekend for an attack on an oil pipeline some 30 miles west of Port Harcourt.
The rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said that the attack was "a warning strike," carried out by five speedboats full of armed men, and was intended to send a signal to the government of hospitalized President Umaru Yar'Adua to renew its efforts at engaging the rebels in peace talks. The talks were suspended after Mr. Yar'Adua left suddenly for emergency medical treatment in Saudi Arabia nearly a month ago.
The important benefits of the truce were shown last month, when the Nigerian government announced its highest ever output of crude oil. A return to unrest, a MEND rebel spokesman told the Monitor, would be devastating.
"This is the quiet before the storm," says a MEND spokesman calling himself Tom, in an interview with the Monitor last week. "MEND wants to do the right thing, that's why they met with the president."
Rebels feeling 'frustrated'
But in the weeks since the president's departure, government negotiations have halted, and rebels are getting "frustrated," Tom says. "It's going to be more ferocious. What we expected was the government to utilize the time to address the issue of resources. But they are playing politics with our health. In the past, you would attack a platform and take one or two hostages. This time, you will evacuate the platform completely of its personnel, and burn the platform completely. And for four or five years after that, there is no hope for that platform to produce."
Nigeria's brief respite from a decade or more of insurgency in the Niger Delta was the personal initiative of Yar'Adua, who offered rebels amnesty from prosecution if they agreed to disarm and reintegrate into society. A collection of rebel groups took Yar'Adua at his word, and disarmed, but have become disillusioned at the slow progress and government's inability to actually follow through on promises to provide job training and other methods of helping the rebels return to civilian life.
MEND, which announced a cease-fire but did not disarm, has stopped short of returning to full militant operations, but appears close to making that decision, unless the Nigerian government follows through on its promised aid and development for the Niger Delta, and negotiations on giving local people "control over the resources."
Nigerian government officials say the government is putting all its energy behind the peace process, but the Niger Delta rebels need to be patient.
"The Niger Delta is key to the president's agenda, the amnesty progress is very successful, and the supplemental budget for development in the Niger Delta region has been passed," says Bolaji Adebiyi, President Yar'Adua's personal advisor. Some $2.6 billion worth of road projects, and $670 million in power projects have been approved for the Niger Delta region, and many are ongoing. "It's not fair to say there is no progress," Mr. Adebiyi says. "There are processes that have to be followed."
Patience tested
Yet the oil pipeline attack Friday night shows that patience is running thin.
A spokesman for MEND confirmed that the group had organized the attack on an oil pipeline near the Niger Delta town of Abonemma.
Pat Utomi, a former presidential candidate and a negotiator in the Niger Delta peace process, says that losing momentum now means losing a crucial opportunity for peace.
"Several of the groups in the Niger Delta were beginning to be exhausted by the process of fighting, and the economic cost for the Niger Delta issue was too much, because production was shut down," says Mr. Utomi.
But in the absence of the president, the amnesty program has stalled, Utomi said. "With him in bad shape, you wonder, how is the process going to be sustained?"
"As people of the Niger Delta, we felt very strongly that we need to give all the support to any process that could bring peace, and to give an opportunity to see if the Niger Delta can be resolved," says Annkio Briggs, a human rights activist and founder of the Agape Birthrights, a non-governmental organization working in the Delta. "We can't afford for the country to come to a standstill."
Why is MEND attacking the Niger Delta?
MEND, for its part, says that a standstill is not an option.
"We got into this process because the oil companies were destroying our environment, our livelihoods, our health," says Tom, the MEND rebel. Attacking oil platforms will hurt the environment more, he admits, but the attacks are necessary for the people of the Delta to get control of what they regard as their own resources.
"When the Americans attacked Berlin to get Hitler, they didn't do it with kit gloves," says Tom. "They had to destroy Berlin in order to build a new Berlin."


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Network: ABC Family
Episodes: Ongoing (hour)
Seasons: Ongoing
TV show dates: October 22, 2013 — February 4, 2014
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Tyler Blackburn, Nicole Anderson, Britne Oldford, Brett Dier, Merritt Patterson, and Steven Cabral.
TV show description:
A spin-off of Pretty Little Liars, this dramatic series takes place in Ravenswood, a Pennsylvania town which has suffered under a deadly curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly find their lives interconnected and need to uncover into the town's mysterious and terrible history before it's too late for them.
Caleb Rivers (Tyler Blackburn) is a street-smart "bad boy" and foster kid who recently moved from nearby Rosewood. He has a checkered past that includes computer hacking. Before moving, he broke up with his girlfriend, Hannah.
Miranda Collins (Nicole Gale Anderson) is also a foster kid. Feisty and fiercely independent, she relies on her wits to cover her emotional scars. Caleb learns that she can be a fierce and loyal friend if you can break through her tough exterior.
Raymond Collins (Steven Cabral) is Miranda's uncle and only living relative. Handsome and guarded, he owns a local funeral home and may know more about the town's dark history than he shares. Raymond is cold and unwelcoming when he first encounters Miranda.
Remy Beaumont (Britne Oldford) is a girl who can fit in anywhere — but doesn't belong to any one crowd. She's both inquisitive and determined to find out the truth about what's going on. Her parents, Simon (Henry Simmons) and Terry Beaumont (Sophina Brown), are distrustful of out-of-towners. Terry serves in the military and recently returned home.
Olivia and Luke Matheson are twins. Olivia (Merritt Patterson) used to be a carefree and happy spirit. A former prom queen, she's now struggling after the murder of her father. Her friends have turned their backs and she's questioning what's important and what no longer matters.
Formerly a popular kid, Luke (Brett Dier) is a brooding lone wolf with an old soul. He's slow to trust but once his trust is earned, he's extremely loyal.
Episode #10 — My Haunted Heart
Caleb finally has to clue Hanna in to some of what has been happening in Ravenswood when she shows up demanding to speak to Miranda about "stealing" him away. Luke and Olivia finally learn what really happened to their father and who was responsible. With the walls closing in around him, Dillon makes a drastic move. When Remy goes missing, the rest of "The Five" are desperate to rescue her, leading to an intense showdown with everyone's lives in peril.
First aired: February 4, 2014.
What do you think? Do you like the Ravenswood TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season?


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Brutal fallout
Selfless medical aid workers murdered in Afghanistan remembered
On Sunday evening as members of an international fellowship in Kabul gathered to remember and celebrate the lives of 10 humanitarian aid workers killed during a medical mission to Afghanistan's northern province of Badakhshan, details of their lives and events leading up to their deaths continued to emerge.
Gunmen apparently surrounded the team as they crossed into Nuristan Province from remote Badakhshan late last week, shot them at close range, then raided their vehicles and belongings. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility, one of the most brutal attacks on aid workers since war began in 2001, saying they were foreign spies and accusing them of spreading Christianity.
The team, organized by International Assistance Mission (IAM), included six Americans, four Aghans, a German, and a Briton. Two of the Afghans escaped death: One fled to his hometown of Jalalabad following the attack; the other, a driver sources say is suspected of aiding in the attack, returned to Kabul, where Afghan police arrested him. Bodies of the remaining team members were airlifted to Kabul on Sunday, with U.S. embassy personnel taking custody of the remains of Americans. Autopsies are planned as part of an embassy investigation.
Team leader Tom Little, 64, an optometrist from New York who had worked in Afghanistan since 1976, was a fluent Dari speaker and helped to establish an eye hospital in Kabul that was overrun and shut down by the Taliban in 1996. He made treks to remote areas of the country in what fellow aid workers referred to as "eye camps" and was said to treat Taliban fighters though they briefly kicked him out of the country in 2001.
Among the aid community Little and his wife Libby were widely known for holding pancake dinners every Friday night that sometimes topped 100 in attendance. "People just had to bring their own toppings, and Tom would stand at the griddle and make hundreds of pancakes each week," said Rachel Schaus, a humanitarian worker in Kabul for more than a decade and a neighbor. Schaus said Little successfully intervened during a robbery attempt at her own home, as gunmen held her, her husband, and two young children during the early days of war in 2001.
"Tom yelled, 'O bacha, chee maykuni?' which means, 'Little boy, what are you doing?'-words chosen to shame our robbers-and after pointing their guns at him, they fled the house," recalled Schaus.
Dan Terry, 63, was another veteran of Afghanistan aid work and close friend of Little. He had worked in the country since 1971, married a Finnish aid worker named Seija in 1976, and raised three daughters there. Just a week ago in Kabul, with Terry on "his trek north," I listened as Seija recounted over dinner their family surviving Soviet occupation, civil war, and Taliban takeover. They worked for a time in a remote village in the mountains west of Kabul, 9,000 feet above sea level. The Taliban once jailed Terry for overstaying his visa, and he made friends with fellow prisoners whom he witnessed being beaten. Terry and his wife had just returned to Afghanistan from the United States for the medical mission to Badakhshan: "This is the work and the people that we love," she told me. On Sunday Seija told friends the only way she could identify her husband's body, after he had been shot multiple times, was by his beard.
"Dan Terry and Tom Little were men of faith and made no secret of that," wrote BBC journalist and friend Kate Clark on a blog following the killings.
But aid workers who knew the IAM team said they were on a mission to provide medical care, not to proselytize, or attempt to convert Muslims to Christianity. IAM is registered as a Christian charity working on development projects in Afghanistan going back to 1966. Executive director Dirk Frans told media that the group does not engage in evangelism efforts. In fact, non-governmental organizations registered to work in Afghanistan must adhere to the "Principles of Conduct for The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement," which state that "aid will not be used to further a particular political or religious standpoint."
Aid groups with Christian roots have come under increasing scrutiny in Afghanistan, following the May release of a videotape showing baptisms and prayers services allegedly instigated by Western aid workers ("Kill the Christians," June 18, 2010). Since that time two groups had their work in Afghanistan suspended. Several others, including IAM, have been the object of investigations, with Ministry of Economy officials showing up to scrutize hiring practices, internal audits, and other paperwork.
All members of the IAM team were volunteers-the group does not pay salaries-and several had given up lucrative practices to work in Afghanistan. Karen Woo, 36, the British member of the group and a surgeon, left a job in a private clinic in London. A message posted last March on the website Bridge Afghanistan said she was "flat broke and living in a war zone but enjoying helping people in great need."
Other Americans on the team included Glenn Lapp, 40, a nurse from Lancaster, Pa., and member of the Mennonite Central Committee; Thomas Grams, 50, a dentist from Durango, Colo., who worked with Global Dental Relief; Cheryl Beckett, 32, of Ovensville, Ohio, a specialist in mother-child health; and Brian Carderelli, 21, a student whose parents teach at the International School of Kabul. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Kalla wins, Bjoergen makes history at Winter Olympics
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) The Pyeongchang Games got off to a historic start on Saturday.
Charlotte Kalla of Sweden won the first gold medal of the games and Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen took silver in the women's 15-kilometer skiathlon to become the most decorated female Winter Olympian ever.
But while the 37-year-old Bjoergen, who won three gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games and three more in Sochi, proved she's still a dominant figure in the sport she admitted there is a noticeable changing of the guard happening in the sport.
"I have been very good for many years but I'm also getting older and the younger girls are getting better," Bjoergen said.
It was an 11th career medal for Bjoergen, breaking a three-way tie with Raisa Smetanina of Russia and Stefania Belmondo of Italy. Bjoergen thrust her arms up in the air as she crossed the finish, knowing she'd made history in what she said will be her last Olympics.
Kalla won the race by more than seven seconds after breaking away from the pack in the last 2 kilometers to avenge her second-place finish to Bjoergen at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
She said she has plenty of respect for Bjoergen, one of her training partners.
"It feels very good to be ahead of Marit," Kalla said. "She's a fantastic skier."
Krista Parmakoski of Finland was third and Jessica Diggins placed fifth, missing a chance to become the first American woman to earn a medal in cross-country skiing. Diggins was third in the World Cup standings coming into the race.
Diggins said she was so nervous before the race that she threw up.
"The stress level has been pretty high," Diggins said. "I need to work on a few things to manage stress."
Led by Bjoergen, Norway won 11 medals overall in cross-country in Sochi four years ago – including five golds – to tie the country's record.
The Norwegians have now tied Russia for the most medals all time in women's cross-country skiing with 37.
Including men's cross-country events, only Bjoern Daehlie of Norway has won more medals (12) than Bjoergen. She will have a chance to pass that mark in the upcoming weeks.
For Kalla it was her sixth career Olympic medal – and third gold.
Bjoergen was 14th after the first of the four laps, but bolted to the lead on the outside on the second lap. She led by less than a second at the midway point of the race as the crowd roared, sensing that history was near.
But when the skiers changed skis and went from classical to freestyle technique, Bjoergen seemed to lose some momentum. The lead changed hands several times on the third lap before Bjoergen again grabbed the lead.
But it didn't last.
Late in the race, Kalla seemed re-energized and pulled away with a burst. She coasted the final 20 meters for the victory after leading by more than 10 seconds.
Kalla said she worried she might have made her move too early.
"There were some thoughts about what the others were doing but I just tried to focus on my performance," Kalla said. "I try to look forward all of the time."
Bjoergen got caught behind another skier and said she couldn't follow her. By the time she had room to maneuver it was too late because Kalla had built too large of a lead to make up.
Kalla's teammate, Ebba Andersson, barely missed a medal by finishing fourth. Heidi Weng of Norway, who leads the World Cup standings, finished a distant ninth.
More AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org
This story has been corrected to show the spelling of the bronze medalist's last name is Parmakoski, not Parmakowski.


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A Change of Focus
So... with the new year and all (and the year and a half of silence), I think it's about time to... refocus this blog a little. When it started out, it was mostly about atheism. I'm likely to still have something to say about that subject, of course, but there are other things I want to write about too. A year after the blog launched, I admitted I was gay. And... well, that's another thing I'm likely to want to write about some.
But I think maybe the main thing I'm going to want to focus this blog on is skepticism and critical thinking. Because really, that's the root of everything else. It's critical thinking that leads to recognizing the lack of foundation of religion. It would certainly be silly to say it was critical thinking that made me gay... but critical thinking does lead to more acceptance of that and other traits, by, again, helping to recognize the baselessness of discrimination. Ultimately, I think critical thinking is one of the most important things to try to foster.
Anyway, we'll see how the blog develops over this next year. There are a few things I want to do fairly soon, though. I'm going to make a few changes to that blogroll on the right... there are a few other blogs I ought to add, and at least one of the blogs that is listed there is no longer updating, and should maybe be removed. (Well, several of them haven't updated in a while, but one of them has officially declared itself inactive.) But also, I should make a new introductory post. I already have an introductory post—it was the first post on this blog—but a lot has changed since then, and it's pretty badly out of date.
And then, yeah, I'll get to making some more substantive posts. Never did get around to finishing that series on the Seven Deadly Sins... But in the meantime... yeah, I've got a lot on my plate...


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That kind of immersive experience has earned Allison Inn the No. 4 ranking among wine country hotels, based on Travel + Leisure readers' votes in the annual World's Best Awards survey. The winners come in lots of varietals, from opulent hotels to cozy inns, and turn up in established wine regions (South Africa's Franschhoek, Argentina's Mendoza) and less-expected destinations like Arizona's Verde Valley and the Mount Etna area of Sicily, where that volcanic soil can work wonders.
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Napa Valley, Calif., certainly has experience catering to the wine-focused traveler. "Our customers come here to experience wine country from head to toe," says George Goeggel, managing partner of Auberge du Soleil in the Napa Valley, one of the area's first boutique resorts. "We try to embody the wine country lifestyle in all aspects, from a glass of wine at reception to the local bottles on the menu to the crushed grapes in our spa treatments."
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Not to be left out, the East Coast has its own properties among this year's winners. Virginia's rolling hills nurture The Inn at Little Washington as well as Keswick Hall, decked out with hunt-club prints and Chippendale chairs and host of regular themed wine dinners.
Even select urban hotels have caught on to the interest in wine tourism and offer guided day trips to wineries within a short drive. The renovated Four Seasons, Firenze, occupies a glorious frescoed palazzo with a pool and eight-acre park. It stocks nearly 400 bottles at Winery restaurant and makes a refined base for guided excursions into Chianti, 40 minutes away.
No matter which wine-country hotel you choose, one thing's for sure: you won't go home thirsty.
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LOS ANGELES (Jewish Journal) — David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer, screenwriters of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film, "The Dictator," were bantering in the comic actor's office as Alec Berg, their co-writer, joined in by speakerphone — he was home babysitting his young daughter.
Baron Cohen, star of the prankster mockumentaries "Bruno" and "Borat," was about to move out, and the office was bare except for some black-leather furniture, wigs from his turn as a gay fashionista in an antechamber and posters of "The Dictator" looming large.
Notoriously reclusive, Baron Cohen eschews interviews except in character, and on this day he was behind a closed door in a nearby office, where the screenwriters were about to join him to concoct further publicity stunts for the dictator character in advance of the film's release on May 16.
Among other stunts so far, the writers helped plan Baron Cohen's spilling "ashes of Kim Jong-il" all over Ryan Seacrest (it was actually pancake mix) while Seacrest was live on camera on the red carpet at the Oscars. They also helped Baron Cohen — er, the dictator — blame "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Zionists" for banning his character from the ensuing Academy Awards ceremony.
There is a philosophy behind even the crudest of their pranks and scenes, the writers say.
"What Sacha always tries to do, with 'Borat,' 'Bruno' and even 'The Dictator,' is to make sure your victims are worthy, so that there's a satirical aspect to the comedy," said Schaffer, who like Berg and Mandel is a Harvard graduate in his early 40s with executive producing credits on "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." "These aren't innocent victims. And nobody is going to feel sorry for Ryan Seacrest." Whether this last is true has been up for debate.
Baron Cohen became an international sensation in 2006 with his character Borat, a sexist, anti-Semitic TV anchor allegedly from Kazakhstan who descended upon the United States only to elicit the worst in American culture. In one cringe-worthy sequence, he enlisted unsuspecting patrons of a country western bar to sing along to his ditty "Throw the Jew Down the Well." In "Bruno" (2009), his fashionista character tries to broker peace between dour Israelis and Palestinians while confusing the word "hummus" with "Hamas."
The social satire may be pushed even further in "The Dictator," Baron Cohen's first scripted film, for which he shares writing credit with Mandel, Schaffer and Berg. The story spotlights Adm. Gen. Shabazz Aladeen, a fascist, misogynistic, Zionist-hating North African despot who is meant to skewer post-Sept. 11 America as he traipses about New York. Only trailers and a two-minute snippet of the film were available before press time, but the action appears to take off as Aladeen arrives in the United States to address the United Nations, only to be kidnapped, shaved and stripped of his identity and left to wander the city until he is rescued by a naive grocery manager played by Anna Faris.
Along the way, Aladeen spars with his ex-head of security (and "chief procurer of women") played by Ben Kingsley; teams up with his former top scientist, aka Nuclear Nadal; encounters post-Sept. 11 prejudice; and has a run-in with the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Will he shake the ambassador's hand? "He does more than shake his hand," Schaffer said, declining to reveal more.
During the interview, the three writers, who met while working on the Harvard Lampoon, weren't above skewering their own Jewishness — or lack thereof. Mandel is an Upper West Sider who attended Hebrew school until his bar mitzvah and not a day afterward, Schaffer was such a prankster at his own religious school that he was expelled, and Berg has a Jewish wife but is actually a Swedish-American non-Jew — not that that prevents everyone from assuming he's a member of the tribe. Berg, in fact, said he was the inspiration for a "Curb" episode in which Larry David's prickly character is mortified to discover his divorce attorney, also named Berg, is not Jewish and is thus, he fears, "out to screw him."
In person, "Curb's" creator is actually a "total mensch," unlike the show's eponymous character, who says all the things David wishes he could say in real life, the writers said: "TV Larry is like Superman to real Larry's Clark Kent," Mandel said. "Even though Larry could not be more different than Sacha, what they share is a very businesslike approach to what is funny."
Baron Cohen's work hasn't been without its critics. Back in 2006, the Anti-Defamation League worried that "Borat" might enhance rather than dash anti-Semitism in some quarters; "The Dictator" could well elicit charges of encouraging instead of skewering Islamophobia since the World Trade Center attacks.
In The Jerusalem Post, Palestinian writer Ray Hanania suggested that the observantly Jewish Baron Cohen would do better to satirize his own people instead of "picking on easy targets," such as Arab dictators.
Mandel, Schaffer and Berg quickly stop joking when confronted with these questions. "Let's be as clear as humanly possible," Mandel said. "Technically speaking, the dictator is North African. But he is not Muslim. There is no mention of Muslims, or Muslim humor.
"Of course, Aladeen is clearly not a Zionist," Berg added. "He dislikes Jews, but only as part of an anti-Zionist, anti-West agenda. To us, he's always been an amalgam of world dictators, like Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Gadhafi and Serdar Turkmenbashi of Turkmenistan," Mandel said.
The writing team came up with the idea for "The Dictator" after Baron Cohen, who had brought them in to collaborate on "Borat" and "Bruno," asked them to pitch ideas for a new film. When they described a spoof based on the crazed despots of the world, Baron Cohen was hooked.
"You can't make this stuff up," Mandel said of some real-life events that inspired scenes in the movie. Turkmenbashi really did pass a law changing the words for two days of the week to his own name; Kim Jong-il, according to North Korean propaganda, hit nine holes in one the first time he played golf; and Gadhafi traveled with his all-female security force, "so the dictator travels with his virgin guard," Schaffer said.
And don't forget the kitschy, pseudo-heroic black-light portraits that Saddam Hussein's sons hung all over their palaces. "So, in the movie, there's sort of a black-velvet painting of a muscular Aladeen riding a jaguar, clutching the severed head of Albert Einstein," Mandel said with a laugh.
The writers describe "The Dictator" as the first mainstream-studio comedy to take on the Sept. 11 attacks and the ensuing fear of Arabs — or people mistaken as Arab — particularly where flying vehicles are concerned.
"We do a scene in which Aladeen is somewhat innocently taking a ride in a helicopter, but it's really about what the two other passengers, Midwestern Americans, are seeing and hearing," Mandel said. "He's having a normal conversation in his native tongue about all the wonderful things that New York has to offer, like the Empire State Building, while the other passengers begin to get worried. Then he's telling a story about how he crashed his Porsche 911 so he's hoping to get the new 2012 911. But he couldn't be more innocent."
The Arab Spring, which took place while "The Dictator" was shooting, required copious revisions of the script. "None of those countries took into account how much rewriting we had to do," Schaffer quipped.
But for the trio, anyway, writing a scripted film may have proven in some ways easier than Baron Cohen's previous mockumentaries.
"Whereas in 'Borat' and 'Bruno' you're going, 'I hope this person says this,' in a script you just go, he says this,' " Schaffer said.
"The Dictator" opens in Tucson on Wednesday, May 16.